SIE has just successfully installed the Pablo de Olavide University cluster that will be used for different research groups working in fields as diverse as theoretical physics, materials science, nanotechnology, liquid simulation, solar cells, meteorology, theoretical ecology, genomics, protein structure, cell evolution, cancer research or bioinformatics among others.
This cluster is installed with the software solution (100%) Open Source Ladon OS, whose development is based on Centos 7, a free and 100% compatible distribution from Red Hat.
Sistemas Informáticos Europeos, has developed both the SIE Ladón hardware for this cluster and the software solution, which in addition to Ladon OS, includes the BeeGFS global disk export system. Also included as part of the project is training, help and support for both UPO administrators and researchers.
With this new equipment installed by Sistemas Informáticos Europeos, the Pablo de Olavide University, is equipped with a Scientific Computing Center, with high capacity to carry out different tasks related to the structure or function of proteins or genomics. These analyzes have important implications linked to understanding our genome or curing diseases, which have great social repercussions.
The system has a bond network environment for service management, a dedicated IPMI management network and an Infiniband FDR network for the parallel calculation environment. It also has a hybrid CPU + GPU node.